Re: downloading debian
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Arunas Norvaisa wrote:
> On 01:38 PM 98.03.26 +0100, Joseph Noelmans wrote (and I quoted):
> >hello,
> >
> >I'm trying to download the debian distribution.
> >Could you please explain me how I should do this? I don't even know
> >which files I have to pick from your ftp-server.
> >I have a :
> > pentium 100
> > 48MB RAM
> >I use Netscape to surf the Internet
>
> If you use ftp.debian.org, the distributions are in
> /debian/bo/binary-i386 for stable distribution...
>
> BTW, just now tried to connect to above - it seems ftp is
> EMPTY !!! Anybody knows the reason??????????
>
> If you'll use Sunsite or it's countless mirrors, it should
> be somewhere in /pub/linux/distributions/debian/bo/binary-i386
> (or similar - this differs ftp to ftp).
If I understand correctly:
bo is dead. bo is frozen.
Replace bo with frozen.
Or better, still use URLs like debian/dists/stable/main.
Jules
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